I waited until the sun to complete its journey throughout the sky by flying around the town keeping an eye out for any trouble that may come our way. I enjoyed my time flying in the sky feeling the flow of the air through my feathers, amusing myself by spinning and diving through the air. I wondered if falling through the sky in my natural form would feel as graceful as it does now, but I was never game enough to do it without some sort of safety net.
When the sun finally began to descend, I went to the highest tree I could possibly find and turned to the sunset and watched the world fade away into darkness. I heard Erik arriving from a distance, I didn't shy away from it instead I looked down through the trees hoping from branch to branch until I saw him.
He had an amusing look of frustration on his face, he was sniffing loudly trying to find me I assumed, my scent would have carried through the forest as I flew around it, using the trees as dodging practice. I stayed silent once I had him in my vision making sure to keep as still as possible, making this game of hide and seek much more amusing for myself.
"Susannah, where are you?" His deep voice called through the leaves of the silent forest. "This isn't funny, I don't know where you are." I laughed at the growl in his voice causing a squark to come out, noticing my mistake I began to take off in flight trying to avoid him.
What I didn't count on was his ability to fly, he managed to get to the top of the tree in a very short amount of time, I was once again in his hands. "Little Reafan, why did you hide from me so? Didn't you know how incredibly naughty that is?" Even as a bird I knew my look of 'are you serious right now?' was conveyed to him.
He released me from his grasp, and I took to the air as quickly as my wings would take me, he followed behind me silently. I landed on his shoulder and slowly transformed back into my Fae form. He moved me from his shoulders and into his arms.
"Do you not have the ability to fly in this form lover?"
"No, that ability never came to me unfortunately I know of others who have achieved it though." He laughed at my pout before kissing me softly.
"What of dancing lover, do you like dancing?"
"I can't say I'm a great dancer, however I do not like dancing when there is no ground beneath my feet."
"Then place your feet on mine." I did as I was told, as he took my hand in his and placed the other on my waist, he moved along to the beat of a perfect waltz as he spun us in the air, every step was perfectly timed to a three-step beat, I was lost in the ice blue of his eyes and the way his golden hair danced around his face as the wind blew.
He threw me in the air and caught me as I began to fall resulting in a delightful squeal of pleasure, even more so when he threw me with a slight spin before catching me again and continuing the dance. Although there was no music, it didn't distract from the music playing within my soul, a perfect Contempo of violins singing and plucking at my heart strings.
As the song began to end, he spun me in his arms keeping my feet on his before dipping me and kissing me softly. I don't know how long we danced for, I'm not even aware of what time of the night we began dancing all I know is it's the first time in as many years that I enjoyed a dance with someone other than my grandfather.
"Thank you, Erik." He returned us back to the ground and together we walked hand in hand to the lake we first met at and although the water was beyond freezing, we stripped one another of our clothes and washed each other's bodies of the dirt and grime life covers us in, once back in our little home next to the fire we began to discuss the future.
"So now we have one another, where do we go next?" He was playing with strands of my hair watching the light of the fire flicker against it.
"We're in Northern England currently, London is prospering, we could go to the middle east and experience the crusades?"
"I do not wish to surrender to battlefields anymore, I want to experience the world with you, and I do not wish to see you near that amount of blood and gore." He was frowning at the very thought.
"What if we go to China? We could experience a completely different culture than our own?"
"I do not speak the language, seeing as I'm a 6'7" Viking give or take a few inches I doubt I will fit in, in a country such as China or any Asian country. You may be able to change your looks, but I cannot."
"Good point… What about Ireland?"
"The Queen of Ireland currently is not a nice queen; the Faery population and the Vampires are currently are war in that country… Well, that's the rumor anyway."
"We could go through the Holy Roman Empire?"
"Romans are tedious, that is where my Maker will go, there or Russia."
"You are not making this easy, where would you like us to go?"
"I think we are better off staying in England, there is no way for us to permanently settle down currently. Seeing what I am I have to keep moving."
"So that is what we will do." We planned out our next move knowing we could not reside here permanently we made the move to head further north to the cusp of the country, Erik had no wealth to him but luckily, I did.
"How rich are you?" His famous frown was back.
"I have had multiple lifetimes to secure my wealth, to have a true number would take me too long to count it all, then there is my family's wealth. Believe me Erik, it is not worth the hassle."
"Good point, should we change our names since we are traveling?"
"Do you normally change your name when you move about?"
"Yes."
"Well then, what would you like to be called?"
"Leofric?" I burst out laughing. "Fine then, what do you think?"
"Maybe just Erik. Our names are common enough currently that no one will question it, if someone does, we will just glamour them with vampiric powers or my pure charm." I Kissed him softly. "That reminds me Erik, I have something for you."
"What is it lover?" I pulled his fathers crown from my bag and presented it to him, watching his eyes widen as he marveled at it. He held it gently in his hands as I saw red tears beginning to swell in his eyes. "How…"
"He gave it to me to keep, I couldn't accept such a gift, so I told him I'd save it for someone much worthier than myself."
"I am honoured at such a gift." He put the crown on his head for a second and I felt such a strong sense of pride for him, it suited him and made him the ruler I knew he was destined to be. He took off the crown and returned it to me again. "Would you keep this safe for me?"
"Always my strong Viking." I placed it once again in its secure place within my magic bag. We spent the night making love to one another before Erik had to leave to secure his meal for the evening. "let me come with you."
"Why would you even want to witness such an act?"
"Because I believe we're destined to be together, I can watch your back whilst you feed to keep you safe, just as when I hunt you can protect me."
He grumbled in reluctance, I transformed into a wolf and ran by his side he didn't run as fast as he could so that I could keep pace, since I was larger than a normal wolf, I was able to run faster but not quite vampire fast.
I hid in the shadows but made sure to always keep an eye on him, we approached the village and saw a young girl sneaking out of her house and run into the field, Erik was stalking her from behind as I watched. Normally I would feel guilty about what was about to happen, but if it were the choice between someone being fed on or losing Erik, I found the feelings of apprehension just disappeared.
The girl herself was an almost white blonde compared to my honey colour, she was smaller than any other person I'd seen in the area. I kept pace with Erik and the young girl, until a bunch of thugs came from the thickness of the forest towards her oblivious to Erik and myself. I ran to Erik stealthily and motioned with my head to the men making him pause in his advancements.
I transformed from a wolf back to my Fae form with leather belt and knives attached to me like a second skin, I stalked quickly to the right of the men whilst Erik took the left, we both nodded to one another to signal that we wouldn't intervene unless necessary.
The girl was a spitfire, her green eyes were vibrant even in the black of night, I noticed the way her dress clung to her frame she had daggers strapped to her thigh ready to be used if needed. She obviously trusted these men to some degree because she didn't slow her stride or get her daggers ready, big mistake I thought.
"Aye Karin, what are you doing here?"
"I've come to talk to you. What the fuck do you think you're doing'?" I smirked at her words, here she was against four burly men with no back up or weapons.
"What business is it of yours Karin? Go back home to your ma and pa."
"Fuck you Will."
"You did." He sneered cheered on by his 'boys'.
"You wouldn't be so fucking cheerful over there if you fought like a man." The man bit onto her challenge and started to rush her, I underestimated the little spit fire as she tore the skirt off her dress and grabbed her daggers out and danced just out of reach of him after slicing his arm.
I nodded to his friends to Erik, he immediately went to deal with the friends who were cheering at the revelation of a fight they thought they'd come out the victors in, what I wasn't counting on was one of them screaming making Karin lose her focus getting a knockout blow from Will.
I jumped in before he could do any more damage to the young woman and crept up behind him and placed my dagger against his throat. "what the fuck is this?" He bellowed.
"Your death if you do not stop struggling." I whispered in his ear; I changed the tone of my voice to convey just how close he is to deaths hand.
I kicked out his knees causing him to fall to the ground, once subdued I looked to Erik to see he had glutted himself on the other men, standing back and watching me at my favorite past-time. "Did I tell you have attractive you are lover?" His voice sent shivers down my back and made me warm and gooey.
"No, tell me again?"
"I want to kiss you, rub myself all over you and fuck you everywhere." He was behind me now kissing the back of my neck and rubbing himself against my bottom.
"Later Erik, check on the girl." She was still lying down unconscious.
"Slave-maker." He grumbled playfully when he bent down the girl began to come to. When she looked into his eyes, I felt a flare of jealously when I saw her cheeks redden in embarrassment. "are you okay?"
"I am now… Where is that filthy motherfucker?" She looked around her and noticed me standing behind her object of anger. "What are you going to do to him?" She looked me directly in the eyes as she stood up and dusted herself off.
I placed a foot in the back of William and pushed him to the ground in front of the girl. "I was planning on giving him to you." Once his body was pushed away from me, she looked at me properly and noticed the number of daggers I had across my body.
"Why?"
"Because sometimes vengeance is worth it." I shrugged. "I have no motive other than seeing if you're capable of such an act."
"You the fuck are you to judge me?" Erik grinned behind her.
"I like her." He declared.
"I'm still undecided." I looked to William and back to Karin. "Are you going to kill him quick or slowly?" She picked up her blades then went over to the pitiful excuse for a human and stabbed her blades through his neck.
"Quick it is then." Erik came back over to me and stood behind me.
"Who are you two? I've never seen you around these parts."
"We're actually on our way out of town, were you planning on robbing us little highway-woman?" I noticed her thoughts we are wondering how she could steal from us and get away with it.
"How fucking dare, you question my honour!" She spat. I sped in front of her and grabbed her hair and spun her around before kicking out her legs and pinning her arms underneath her on the ground. I leaned in closely before whispering in her ear.
"I am your worst fucking nightmare girl, you're not even old enough to be out here without an escort but you've been doing it for quite some time. You give your family the extra money you get from robbing folk traveling the highway. Your little band of merry men started to cut you out once you slept with them, that's why you were coming out here tonight. You're lucky we intervened child, if we hadn't, they would have raped and killed you without a second thought."
"I would have killed them all."
"You would have never gotten the chance child. But you're amusing to my mate over there." I nodded in Erik's direction. I could see the pleasure blooming through his eyes at the thought of being called my mate.
"So, what if it's pleasure for him, why the fuck would I care about that?"
"Because as long as you're amusing, we won't be killing you, we're going to give you a choice."
I got off the child and helped her off the ground, surprised that Erik wasn't taking more of a role in the events so far. "Choice one, we glamour tonight from your mind, we allow you to live out the remainder of your life in bliss. Choice two, you join us on our travels. Choice three, we kill you."
"Why do you think I robbed people? So, I could get away from this fucking cursed place. If I joined, you what would happen to me?"
"You would become my child."
"what would that mean for me?"
"I'm a vampire child, together Susannah and I travel the world, we have a destiny that we're heading forward and for some reason we think you may be part of it."
"What would happen if I became your child?"
"I would train you in the ways of vampiric life, your actions would reflect on me and mine. I would control your actions for 10-20 years so that you do not harm yourself or others or do something to make humans believe in vampires."
"But otherwise, I'd have complete control over my life?"
"Complete control." I replied.
"Then I agree."
Erik and I nodded in agreement and took Karin away with us to our next location, Karin the villager from tonight would die.
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